Monday, February 8, 2010

Household Binder

I consider myself a pretty organized person. I mean, I have labels and binders for everything! I have responsibilities at church: a binder for each one. I have been in some really time consuming college classes: again, a binder for those. I have a binder for geneology, a binder for my scrapbook stickers and stencils, geez, even our DVDs are organized in their own binder.

But when it came to running my household? Well, I had a messy desk and a lot of post it notes.

Just recently, I finally had an epiphany: I should have a binder for all the stuff I do to keep my house running smoothly.

So far, my categories are as follows:

Schedules: includes monthly calendars, an ongoing to-do list, basketball league schedules, and a pocket for invitations/information about upcoming events.

Projects: I'm always working on a project (or 10), so here is where all my information will go. I have a bunch of blank lined sheets here so when I come up with an idea to make/do/blog about, I can jot it down.

Kid Stuff: This is the place for all my ideas and information about the summer advent calendar I do with the girls when they are off track.

Like I said, I just started this, so we'll see how it goes. I might have to change some of the categories around, but at least I have a start. Oh, and I'm not the first one to have this novel idea. I found a couple of other women who have this down to a science: Joy, OrganizedHome, and SimpleMom (who by the way, has some awesomeprintables.)

We had an enrichment on this years ago and I gathered the info and even bought a binder but never compiled it. But I did make a "health" binder. I have a section for each child and myself (and need to add Tyler). I keep business cards of each doctor we go to and tape it to a page. I keep all their graphs/growing curves, handouts, etc Insurance cards and vaccination cards in a folder divider. I *try* to keep a list of each time they get sick w/symptoms to see if there is a pattern/or how/what we did for their recovery. It has proved helpful as I kept Jocelyn's jaundice billirubin scores which helped me with Cecily's. Thanks for this blog as a reminder to make my own household binder. How thick is it?

This is awesome! I have been looking at your site. Great stuff! I found you on Mom.Nonstop. I would love for you stop by my blog and link up your binder! I am doing a series on office organizing this month on my Organizing Mission Monday. The link is open until Feb. 24th for office links. Hope to see you there!